{"id":1549,"date":"2014-02-28T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2016-07-03T18:15:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T18:15:37","slug":"theres-a-shark-in-the-bath-by-sarah-mcintyre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2014\/02\/theres-a-shark-in-the-bath-by-sarah-mcintyre\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s a Shark in the Bath by Sarah McIntyre"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a review Bryn, Freya & I wrote for the Guardian Family Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nThis book helps answer the important question of “what would you do if you found a shark in the bath?”. Quick thinking Dulcie has some great ideas for dealing with a whole family of sharks which had us in giggles.<\/p>\n

Bryn declared “this is a brilliant book because it’s so funny”. With all those sharks’ teeth on display, Freya found the story both scary and exciting, but her eagerness to find out what happened to Dulcie eventually outweighed any fears. Balancing Dulcie’s perilous situation with a lot of humour, this is a perfect book to entertain them both.<\/p>\n

It’s a great book to read aloud with fabulously fun turns of phrase and plenty of drama at each turn of the page. With lines from Papa, Mama & baby shark on nearly every page it reminded me of reading Goldilocks, but I’ll need to work hard on my ‘shark’ voices before they reach the standard of my well practiced Daddy, Mummy and baby Bear voices!<\/p>\n

The mix of absurdity with the familiar in this story makes for a fantastic read. Bath times, however, might become a little more tricky, now we never know what we might find in the bathtub.<\/p>\n

After reading this we checked out Sarah’s website as she always has fun activities to go with her books.<\/a> We made our own books while Freya tackled one of the colouring in sheets<\/p>\n

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